It’s one thing to say mean things about a candidate - Cruz is a master of that as well as Trump - but to cheat is something far, far different.
Repeating something the news reported, that came from a statement by the Carson campaign, is cheating? The efforts by Trump to call into question Carson’s character just weeks earlier, show an obvious deficit of morals on Trump’s part. Carson is a good man who has mastered a knowledge and self-discipline Trump (and the rest) could only hope for. Between the two offenses, I see one that was made in the fog of election night with a flurry of information trying to be disseminated. The other offense, that of trying to impugn a good man, was deliberate and calculated. You say that it’s one thing to say mean things, but cheating is far different. I’d suggest there’s reason to doubt it was cheating, but there’s no doubt the amoral attack against Carson by Trump was deliberate and self-serving. The same motive attached to cheating.